The outage has also affected transactions on other websites, including eBay. Over 58 percent of purchases made on eBay are completed with PayPal. Company representatives could not estimate how much of the business was affected by the outage, but according to previous statements, almost USD 2,000 in payments per second (USD 7.2 million per hour) flow through the PayPal system, the same source reports. PayPal members can send money using accounts with PayPal, bank accounts, credit cards or personal financing.
eBay has recently announced that PayPal has processed payments worth USD 16.7 billion in Q2 2009, an increase by 12 percent year-over-year.
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